Mobile · 2015-03-17

Kaspersky’s app Phound! helps find your lost mobile device & protect data on it

One of the world’s largest vendors of endpoint Online security solutions Kaspersky Lab has introduced an Android app that enables users to protect the things that are valuable to them – their mobile devices & personal data. Called Phound! – derived from the words Phone & Hound – this app helps find a lost gadget, & also keep any valuable information stored on it away from prying eyes.

A recent survey of Internet users, over a one year period, had found that 1 in 20 consumers – & as many as 1 in 6 for some countries – have lost their smartphones or Tablets as a result of carelessness or theft. Over one third (38%) of users also admitted that their devices contained confidential data that they would definitely not want falling into the wrong hands, including financial data & login details & passwords for accessing email, social networks & other profiles.

Kaspersky Phound! was developed to prevent this happening. Phound! offers gadget owners the ability to control their devices & the data stored on them remotely, via the ‘My Kaspersky’ portal. If a device is lost or stolen, users can quickly block it to prevent unauthorised access, as well as using GPS, GSM or WiFi networks to find its position on the map. To make searching for the device easier, users can also take pictures with the front camera or bring up a message on the device’s screen.

If the phone or Tablet is lost at home or in the office, it can be found with the help of the ‘Alarm’ feature – the device makes a loud sound & continues until the owner enters a secret code. As a last resort, the owner can use Phound! to remove all personal data from the device & the SD card remotely, including contacts, messages, photos etc., as well as perform a hard reset of the device, if required.

“For many users, mobile devices serve as storage for their most valuable and important data – contacts of friends and colleagues, personal messages, private photos and many other things. This means that today’s smartphones and Tablets need the same security as a bank vault. However, unlike bank vaults, smartphones are small, portable and easily misplaced. That is why we created a solution for our users to prevent their mobile ‘vault’ from falling into the wrong hands,” said Alexey Chikov, Senior Product Manager, Kaspersky Lab.

The freee Kaspersky Phound! app is available in 8 languages from Google Play Store, the official app store for Android. This app complements the Kaspersky Lab portfolio of free & freemium mobile products for home users, which includes Kaspersky Safe Browser for iOS & Windows Phone, Kaspersky QR Scan, Kaspersky Threat Scan, Kaspersky Internet Security for Android and Kaspersky Password Manager for iOS & Android.

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